Ruslan Medzhitov

Ruslan Medzhitov at Yale is a world authority on innate immunity who contributed to establishing the role of Toll-like receptors as pattern recognition receptors for innate immune activation. His research on how innate immune inflammation shapes the tumor microenvironment, and his broader contributions to understanding inflammatory tissue responses, have been foundational for tumor immunology. His work connects innate immunity, inflammation, and cancer biology.